22nd Anniversary of Gay Ordination Vote

Nitro · Aug 25, 2010

On August 24th, 1988 the United Church of Canada (the country's largest protestant denomination) General Council voted in favour of allowing the ordination of gay ministers.

http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/08/24/

From the CBC:

United Church allows gay ministers
• In the weeks following the decision, several United Church ministers resigned because they disagreed with the new policy.
• Ten years after the 1988 decision, only nine churches across Canada publicly admitted that they would ordain homosexual ministers. Four are in Toronto, two in Vancouver, two in Winnipeg and one in Saskatoon.

• A decade after the amendment, there were 27 openly gay ministers and at least 200 more are gay but have not come out, according to Alyson Huntly in her book on the United Church.
• Muriel Duncan said in a 1998 United Church Observer article that most gay and lesbian ministers still believe they're better off in "glass closets." In other words, telling few congregation members of their sexual orientation.
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22nd Anniversary of Gay Ordination Vote

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